He has made the arrangement of these seven temporal days—which represent the seven luminous universes—and His manifestations to them, correspond to the arrangement of the numerical counts from one to seven. This is to guide us through their formal arrangement—their numbers, names, and permanent cycles from which all days and months originated—and through the multiplicity of their forms: their increase and decrease, their moderation, their wrapping (Takwir), their merging (Iylaj), their erasing, their racing, and their darkness and light.
It also includes their transformations through heat, cold, moisture, dryness, clouds, rain, snow, winds, clarity, and all the cosmic events attributed to them—the follower and the followed.
All of these serve as a likeness of the Ancient Luminous Formation and His manifestations. They serve to remind us of the meanings of what is hidden from us regarding the knowledges of the ancient luminous universes and His manifestations to them, and to declare His transcendence above what is an accidental form of these daily transformations, numerical names, and calculations associated with their permanent cycles by the permanence of the Ancient Pre-eternal Being.
Everything that Allah the Exalted mentioned in His Mighty Book regarding visible, outward things is but a reminder to the worlds of the




